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| Marxist turds of a feather |
(Yahoo! News) -- President Barack Obama's
reelection campaign mocked Mitt Romney late Wednesday as being "scared"
of Venezuela's anti-American President Hugo Chavez "like he's ten feet
tall," the latest rhetorical broadside in an escalating war of words.
"Hugo Chavez has become
increasingly marginalized and his influence has waned," Obama campaign
spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement. "It's baffling that Mitt
Romney is so scared of a leader like Chavez whose power is fading, while
Romney continues to remain silent about how to confront al-Qaeda or how
to bring our troops home from Afghanistan."
The rhetorical rumble began late Tuesday when Obama told a Florida television interviewer
that Chavez "has not had a serious national security impact on us."
Romney promptly led a chorus of angry Republican charges that Obama had
failed to confront the alleged threat posed by the Venezuelan leader as
part of a "pattern of weakness" in foreign policy.
"People like Hugo Chavez want
attention — and that's exactly what Mitt Romney and his supporters gave
him today. Governor Romney is only playing into the hands of Chavez by
acting like he's ten feet tall," LaBolt said in a sharply personal and
mocking counter.
"It's disturbing that Mitt Romney is trying to score cheap political points by blustering and misrepresenting the President's record while failing to outline any coherent foreign policy strategy," LaBolt charged.
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